How do I become a Sabermetrician?

Pizza Cutter over at MVN had a great introductory post on how to get started in sabermetrics. In addition to linking to many of the great stats blogs out there, he offers this piece of advice:

Draw from your background. I'm a psychologist by training. Most of the questions that intrigue me center around "Why did he do that?" That's what I've been trained to look for in life. You may think that your chosen field has nothing to do with baseball, but you're wrong. Sure, there are a lot of guys who are physics/math majors who look at algorithims for figuring out what a player will do next year, and that's fine. I'm personally waiting for a good Sabermetric sociologist to come along to figure out why it is that baseball teams and society in general are so poor in assigning value to baseball players. more...